NYC 19

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NYC 19

May 14, 2019 ET

The world is in sad shape, which means, among other challenging realities, that all of us need to ensure our work contributes to larger solutions. Tech changes everything, which we love, but it can’t just be a way to make more money. To figure out how to help the world move forward, we have to collaborate more. All this we discuss at Techonomy NYC.

You’ll meet New York civic and tech leaders, a Facebook policy refugee, iconoclastic business giant Mark Bertolini, author Douglas Rushkoff, author Jared Cohen of Jigsaw, ACLU digital leader Pinky Weitzman, and media, tech and fashion entrepreneur Desiree Gruber. On stage will be veteran tech investors and big company execs turning towards the future, as well as startup founders in finance, health, security, and retail. We’ll also feature experts on AI, blockchain, 5G, and other key technologies.

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NYC 19

May 14, 2019

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No other conference so resolutely focuses on how tech can make the world better. It’s why we put so much emphasis on the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. We believe business and tech can be key to bringing the entire world together, and that leaders who get that will be the ones who best succeed.

Click on the links above for a full list of speakers, more on the program, and other details. We will keep updating these pages as the event gets closer, and even richer.

Speakers

Desiree Gruber

CEO & Founder, Full Picture

Scott Heiferman

Chairman & Co-Founder, Meetup

Kimberly Bryant

Founder & CEO, Black Girls CODE

John Borthwick

CEO, Betaworks

Jutta Steiner

Founder and CEO, Parity Technologies

Nicholas Thompson

Editor in Chief, WIRED

Douglas Rushkoff

Chieh Huang

CEO, Boxed

Karin Klein

Founding Partner, Bloomberg Beta

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Business + Innovation

Hacking a More Secure Society

May 21, 2019

Open source veteran Mickos now gives bounties to hackers for identifying and helping fix security vulnerabilities. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. Dan Costa: All right, Marten, thanks for coming today. I think maybe the place to start—this is a fairly technical audience, but let’s explain what bug bounties are, how they work, and how much money can be made on a single bounty. Marten Mickos: Yes. Well, let’s start from the bad news. Nobody wants to get hacked and everybody gets hacked. Every consumer, every company, everybody gets hacked. But now, fortunately there are people who are fixing it, whether we are ask them to or not. We are asking them to do it, but they’ll do it anyhow. It’s the young generation, they are fixing it for all of us, because we are incapable, we bury our heads in the sand, we don’t know the crap we have created for the future generations. But they will fix it. And bug bounty is based on the idea that if you have a web app or a mobile application, then if good guys can break in, then probably bad guys can too. And if good guys cannot break in, then probably bad guys can’t either. So let’s ask the good guys to try to break in. If they break in, you can fix it, and all is good. If they cannot break in, all is good. So that’s our business. We have today 400,000 freelance hackers, security...

Business + Innovation